Killer Cheese
the ladybug embarks on a very scary adventure through the annals of Blockbuster to bring you "Killer Cheese"--a feature dedicated to those movies that are so bad, they're good.  It takes a special kind of film to make it onto this page; criteria for inclusion so far has included 80s music and/or clothing, being based on a bad (but deliciously addictive) preteen novel series, appearance by John C. McGinley, musical-style singing and dancing, and plots involving surfing bank robbers.  Who knows which movies will be included next?  Indeed, who knows...
Summer School (1987)

The movie that started it all.  Mark Harmon stars as a high school teacher who just wants to party on the beach (don't they all?), but gets roped into teaching remedial English in summer school.  Oh, and what a time they have!  Break out the party dip, because guess who's coming to dinner?  Why it's The Dyslexic Girl with a Heart of Gold, followed by her friend, Quiet Guy by Day/Stripper by Night.  And look!  They brought along The Pregnant Teen with a Heart of Gold,  The Smart Girl with a Crush on the Teacher, and The Generic Exotic Girl from Somewhere in the Middle East!  Oh, and don't forget the only two characters who make this movie worth watching, Francis "Chainsaw" Gremp and his buddy Dave--their only life ambition (that's right, they share one between the two of them) is to reenact Texas Chainsaw Massacre at any given  opportunity.   Needless to say, it makes for cinematic magic.  Watch it the next time it comes on TBS, which is in about five minutes.  
The Baby-Sitters Club (1995)

I won't lie; I grew up reading these crappy books.  Buy hey, I didn't turn out too unliterate.  Sadly, I had long outgrown the books by the time this movie came out.  Turns out, that was a good thing.  I finally watched this just recently and let me tell you, it's true what they say:  good cheese ages well.  Here, we've got seven girls and at least twenty plots.   Let's just say that the film involves supposedly hot teenage boys who aren't hot, plenty of bad acting, a deadbeat dad who returns to do some more deadbeating, token ethnic girls and their token ethnic headwear, bitchy rivals in pastel clothing, a crotchety neighbour who turns out to be a lonely woman in search of friendship, and a particularly engaging subplot involving low blood sugar.  Serve warm, and enjoy! 
Newsies (1992)

It's nothing personal against musicals, really.  Just this movie.  I mean, Christian Bale and Vinnie from "Doogie Howser, M.D." singing about forming a newsboy union?  Pure, unadulterated cheese.  What, you don't believe me?  Okay, here's a lyric from the song "The World Will Know" ('The World' being the newspaper they sell, but also, the actual world--geddit?):  "Even though we ain't got hats or badges / We're a union just by saying so!"  For goodness' sakes, there's a kid named "Crutchy" in this flick, who walks around carrying--you guessed it--a crutch.  Plenty of hot boys dancing in this movie, lots of homoerotic subtext, plus a special appearance by Bill Pullman.  And it's "Based on a True Story"--wow, I wish I'd been around in 1899 to see newsies pirouetting in the streets!
Point Break (1991)

This is easily my favourite cheesy movie of all time.  Dig it:  Keanu Reeves plays Johnny Utah, a football quarterback turned FBI agent ("I!  Am an Eff!  Bee!  Eye!   Age-ant!", he intones at one point) who's out to stop a gang of surfing bankrobbers, led by a Zen-like man named Bodhi (Patrick Swayze).  They go skydiving at some point, and there's a lot of sexual tension--no, not between Keanu and the love interest, Lori Petty, between Patrick and Keanu!  There's not much else you need to know.  Oh yeah:  this is the Best.  Movie.  Ever!
Got a movie you think is worthy of the title "Killer Cheese"?  Let me know!